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Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Ministral 3B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 41.7 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 81.8% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 25.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $1.50 for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index40.425.6
Released2026-03-032024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.04
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$0.04
Results tracked386

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
LMArena Coding1400—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
DTBench76.8%51.7%
LMCA35%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.45118.08
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1407—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
LMArena Math1427—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond81.8%25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%7.3%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
LMArena Expert1397—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1410—
LMArena Chinese1461—
LMArena French1423—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1393—
LMArena Russian1420—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1376—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1394—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1416—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
LMArena Multi-Turn1417—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Ministral 3B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite lists at $0.25 and $1.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Ministral 3B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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